Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/226155 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
wiiw Balkan Observatory Working Papers No. 117
Publisher: 
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Vienna
Abstract: 
The paper develops a model to consistently estimate agglomeration and agglomeration economies in European NUTS3 regions. It is based on the empirical observation that the size of population across regions as well as of other economic variables tend to follow a Zipf distribution. Furthermore, the model is extended to capture agglomeration effects in traditional regional convergence estimations. Agglomeration is analysed for 25 European countries, including Macedonia and Serbia, and the years 2000 to 2012. Results indicate significant agglomeration effects on the level and growth of regional economic development, with agglomeration and agglomeration economies generally declining in the Western European countries and increasing the Central East and South East European countries.
Subjects: 
Zipf's Law
agglomeration economies
Europe
Western Balkans
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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